When using a System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 server, after import the Management Pack for Windows 2008 Print Servers you may find that it’s only discovering Print Servers for Windows 2008 and not for Windows 2008 R2 servers. So what’s going on...

Have you ever found yourself in need of putting a group of systems into Maintenance Mode in System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2?  If so you can use the script below.  Note that in SCOM 2007 R2 there is no need to put the health service...

Here's an issue that was sent to me courtesy of a couple different Support Engineers in our Operations Manager group. Apparently we're getting a call or two on this and they thought it might help if we got the word out. Issue: You may notice that on...

Here's an interesting issue we ran into the other day.  I didn't see this documented anywhere so now it is: ======== Issue: The OpsMgr Connector and the HealthService may log the following events: Event Type:  Error Event Source:  OpsMgr...

Tim Helton, a Senior Supoport Escalation Engineer in our North Carolina office, recently posted a cool utility that will reset all of the health monitors on a single agent or all agents so that you can get re-alerted on all current issues even if you...

Just in case you missed it, Brian Wren recently posted a cool example on how to programmatically create a whole list of groups in Operations Manager 2007.  If this is something you've wanted to do but didn't know how then you'll definitely want to...

Just a quick FYI but over on the Operations Manager Team Blog they published a couple great resources for the heavy duty Management Pack author.  If this is you then you'll want to check these out:   ======== I just want to make sure everyone...

Just an FYI that we published a new version of our System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 SCW Roles and Security Hardening Guide for Windows Server 2008 back on June 9th.  I have a brief description and a download link below: The Operations Manager...

Our very own Mr. Steve Rachui had another great post over on his blog yesterday morning, this time about how to use PowerShell to put a group into Maintenance Mode: Steve? Why are you writing a post on how to place a group in maintenance mode using powershell...

Ever since Windows Phone 7 was launched late last year there’s been a growing buzz surrounding Microsoft’s new phone OS, and with the recent announcement that the Windows Phone Marketplace had surpassed 10,000 apps in those 4-5 months and was growing...

Security is something that is at the top of everyone’s mind, but what if your A/V software actually causes an issue with some of the software you’re running?  If that’s the case then there’s probably an exclusion you need to make to keep things safe...

Here’s another KB article we published today. This one describes a problem where the SCOM 2007 Config Service may consume 100% CPU utilization on servers that have 8 or more cores: ===== Symptoms On machines that have more than eight (8) CPU cores, you...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published today on SCOM 2007.  This one talks about an issue where ACS reports only return a max of 42 days worth of data: ===== Symptoms When using System Center Operations Manager 2007, the audit database...

Last week we published some new Knowledge Base articles for System Center Operations Manager 2007. I won’t go into the details on each but I have the links and titles below: ======== KB972051 - The DBCreateWizard tool of System Center Operations...

If you have installed the MOM 2005 Reliability Analysis Reporting pack and found over time the task has taken longer and longer to complete, then it may be time to groom some of the older data from the database.  The pack does have a grooming stored...

If I had a nickel for each time I heard that one.  It’s a great question too, and one that sometimes isn’t as easy to answer as you might think.  Fortunately for us, the esteemed Kevin Holman has compiled a a fantastic list of hotfixes that...

The Service Level Dashboard Management Pack 2.0 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 was delivered late last week by the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team, and is available for you to download today from the System Center Catalog . Assisting...

Measuring and tracking web application response times can be critical in identifying and preventing potential outages before they occur, and if this is something you’d like to report on in System Center Operations Manager 2007 then here’s how to do it...

Here’s an issue we see on a fairly regular basis around here that I thought would be worth a quick post. This one is concerning an error you may get when trying to install Service Pack 1 for System Center Operations Manager 2007: “Error 25218: Failed...

Here’s another great tip sent to me by Ritesh Grover on our OpsMgr team.  This one involves trying to setup a secondary management server and having it fail because the Data Warehouse (DW) action account and the RMS action account are the same so...

If you've ever said "You know, if I was the one designing System Center Configuration Manager I'd add ____" or "Why did they do it this way?  It would be much better like _____" then here's your chance to provide that feedback...

Steve Rachui has a great post on an issue he ran into using a couple deployment packs from IBM and Dell.  He includes his resolution as well so if you’re using any of these you might want to check this out: OEMs (currently Dell and IBM) provide deployment...

Just an FYI that we have a new Knowledge Base article available for System Center Operations Manager 2007.  This one is about an error message you might get when you try to perform a distributed installation of the System Center Operations Manager...

Here’s an interesting issue sent to me by one of the top Tech Leads on our OpsMgr support team by the name Ritesh Grover .  If you’re getting event log related backup errors then this might be what you’re running into: ======== Symptoms: VSS aware...

UPDATED 08/17/2009: This issue has been resolved with Knowledge Base article 968760: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968760 . ======== Here’s kind of an interesting issue I thought we should probably give you a heads up on. It’s not really a ‘problem...